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Expect your boys to like weapons. It’s true. You can take all their weapons away, and they will make a gun out of a piece of toast.
My son did this exact thing at 2 years old. He'd never been taught or shown how to do so. He just did it. Boys have inherent differences and that's wonderful.
“War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things: the decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks nothing worth a war, is worse. A man who has nothing which he cares about more than he does about his personal safety is a miserable creature who has no chance of being free, unless made and kept so by the existing of better men than himself.”
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“For you will certainly carry out God's purpose, however you act, but it makes a difference to you whether you serve like Judas or like John.”
― The Problem of Pain
― The Problem of Pain
“Mental pain is less dramatic than physical pain, but it is more common and also more hard to bear. The frequent attempt to conceal mental pain increases the burden: it is easier to say “My tooth is aching” than to say “My heart is broken.”
― The Problem of Pain
― The Problem of Pain
“The real problem is not why some pious, humble, believing people suffer, but why some do not.”
― The Problem of Pain
― The Problem of Pain
“When I was a boy and I would see scary things in the news, my mother would say to me, "Look for the helpers. You will always find people who are helping.”
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